Seaward Press founder, Elizabeth Hatt, read, wrote and relished the great outdoors.  A few years pass - er, decades - and Seaward Press is where all three finally meet.

Elizabeth, a farmers daughter, hails from Hampshire and has an educational background in law, business, psychology, and the English language. She founded Seaward Press because she wanted to put specific books into her children's hands — stories that give them a quiet leg-up in learning, and something more lasting besides: a relationship with the natural world that follows them into adulthood.

Not as a lesson. As a source of comfort. As a building block of resilience. To grow quiet confidence, and a mind that stays curious.

She is particularly drawn to creatures most at risk. Bugs often feature in children's books, but rarely a real, named species, and rarely one actually in trouble. Her About a Bug series closes that gap: each book introduces a genuinely threatened species, developed in partnership with the conservation charity working to protect it, with a percentage of every sale going directly to their cause.

The aim isn't just awareness. It's attachment. A child who has never heard of a species can't be expected to care what happens to it. One who has fallen in love with it might grow up to protect it.

Her second series, Grandma the Grammarian, turns the same instinct toward language itself. Written for children and for older readers learning English as a foreign or second language (EFL/ESL), each book carries the reader through a different corner of figurative English via a grandmother who teaches without ever appearing to.

The stories reach beyond language alone. A walk through London carries geography and history alongside its idioms. A day at the farm, a trip to the zoo, or a noisy animal story carries the natural world alongside hyperbole, simile, and onomatopoeia — and PSHE, in the quiet work of learning to be yourself. These books can cornerstone lesson plans that requires cross-curricular content.

Across both series, the founding principle is simply function before form: children learn best when they are so immersed in the story they forget they are absorbing knowledge — not through worksheets or fact boxes, but through characters they love, in stories they want to hear again and again.